Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There still seems to be a lot to be discovered quantitatively about the physical nature of wave damage or erosion and its precise causes , although Komar ( 1976 ) has pointed to work being done in Japan relating wave height and frequency , together with rock properties , to rates of cliff recession . |
| 2 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 3 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 4 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 5 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 6 | But what he has done has been to study twenty one species of freshwater molluscs — that means snails , clams , things of that kind from the Lake Tocarno region of Africa . |
| 7 | And for every tonne of gold at least twice as much mercury has thought to have been lost into the environment . |
| 8 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 9 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 10 | This incident has led to work being carried on , comparing shadow sizes . |
| 11 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 12 | Sunsoft says all it has left to do is upgrade localised versions of the software from Solaris 2.0 to Solaris 2.1 : German , French , Italian , Japanese and two Chinese editions are due . |
| 13 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 14 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 15 | But what he 'd got to do was to plan his time , and work out his priorities , by distinguishing between those tasks that are urgent and those tasks that are important . |
| 16 | He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone |
| 17 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |
| 18 | Shakespeare must have known someone very like Ralph Edwards when he put Fluellen into Henry V. If Ralph came in on St David 's Day , I would have hidden to avoid being forced to eat a raw leek as was poor ancient Pistol in that play . |
| 19 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 20 | Chant might have applauded had be possessed two workable hands , but the flea 's message of corruption was spreading with agonizing speed . |
| 21 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
| 22 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 23 | It must have been a dismal job for those children , who , like children everywhere , would have preferred to have been playing rather than handling ton after ton of cold wet ore and stone . |
| 24 | This of course was a common point of view but none the less irritating because we were nearly all conscripted at this stage of the war and would have preferred to have been left alone to get on with our nice , comfortable civilian lives in peace . |
| 25 | It would also have meant higher administrative costs which would have had to have been borne by charge payers . |
| 26 | To be forty she 'd have had to have been born in the nineteen seventies |
| 27 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 28 | If SI units had been used results would have had to have been reported by height , age , and sex separately and the sample size would have been too small for useful analysis . |
| 29 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |
| 30 | If each row had been widened , one row would have had to have been removed , meaning the new front seats would have been higher than health and safety rules allowed . |